SF News Judge Rips Chaotic Closure of Dublin Women’s Prison, Orders That Transferred Prisoners' Rights Be Restored Every prisoner has now been abruptly transferred out of the federal women’s prison in Dublin, but some have been hauled as far away as Florida, and a judge is ordering their belongings returned and their medical care restored.
SF News Lawyers Frantically Try to Halt Chaotic Inmate Transfer at FCI Dublin Women’s Prison We don’t know how many women have been transferred out of the scandal-ravaged and soon-to-be-shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison, but attorneys for the inmates have filed an emergency restraining order to halt the clearly haphazard and rushed transfer process.
SF News Scandal-Plagued FCI Dublin Women’s Prison Is Abruptly Closing After Torrent of Sex Abuse Claims In a sudden and surprising Monday morning announcement, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced they’re immediately closing the FCI Dublin women’s prison, and they’re already transferring the inmates out.
SF News San Francisco Man Pleads Guilty to Pretending to Be a Movie Producer and Defrauding Investors Out of Millions San Francisco resident Min Jin Zhao, 60, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison and has to pay nearly $1.9 million in restitution to two swindled investors from separate schemes he ran.
SF News Senate Judiciary Committee to Investigate Bureau of Prisons, and Former Dublin Wardens Specifically A Congressional investigation is looking into why a regional prisons official and former acting warden of FCI Dublin was able to rise the ranks despite a history of inmate-beating charges for which other guards got fired.
SF News Third Employee of Dublin Federal Women's Prison Pleads Guilty to Sex Abuse Crimes The third of five officers and employees of the federal women's correctional facility in Dublin to be charged with sex abuse crimes, former prison cook Enrique Chavez, pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of groping an inmate.
SF News Former Warden at Dublin Women’s Prison Indicted on More Sexual Abuse Charges, Victim List Continues to Grow Five officers have already been charged with lurid sexual misconduct charges for exploiting incarcerated women at the Dublin federal correctional facility, and the ex-warden was just indicted on charges involving two more victims.
SF News Actress Felicity Huffman Begins Prison Sentence at Notoriously 'Cushy' Bay Area Facility Following her sentencing to 14 days in federal prison for her role in the college admissions fraud scandal, Oscar nominee and onetime 'Desperate Housewives' star Felicity Huffman began her new real-life 'Orange Is the New Black' experience on Tuesday in Dublin, California.
SF News New Rules Would Provide Trans Women Incarcerated In Male Prisons With Makeup And Bras The woman who made history as the person in the United States to receive gender reassignment surgery while incarcerated is spurring more changes in California's correctional system, as new proposed rules would allow
SF News City To Settle Inmate 'Fight Club' Lawsuit For $90K Inmates who allege they were forced to fight each other for the amusement of San Francisco Sheriff's Deputies will be on the receiving end of a $90,000 settlement after the Board of
SF News Deputy Charged With Arranging Inmate 'Fight Clubs' Has Troubled Past The San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy who pleaded "not guilty" in March to charges of forcing inmates to fight for his entertainment has a long history of complaints. The Examiner reports that former Sheriff's
SF News Sheriff's Deputies Who Allegedly Forced Inmates To Fight Plead Not Guilty Two Sheriff's Deputies accused of forcing inmates in a San Francisco Jail to fight for the deputies' entertainment entered pleas of "not guilty" yesterday. News of the Fight Club-esque battles broke last March,
SF News City Spits On, Rejects $80 Million In State Funds Intended For New Jail Though expected, we now know that the Board of Supervisors' December vote to kill the proposed new jail means that San Francisco will definitely turn down $80 million in state grant money that
SF News California Becomes First State To Set Guidelines Governing Sexual Reassignment Surgery For Transgender Inmates The California Department of Corrections Tuesday announced official guidelines regarding sexual reassignment surgery for transgender inmates, making California the first state to publicly set such standards. This move, which comes after two cases
SF News Inmate Escapes S.F. Jail One Month Before Scheduled Release The man pictured at right is loose on the streets of the Bay Area after outrunning a corrections officer who was escorting him to take out the trash. He is Timothy Deshone Midgett,
SF News Oh No Ed Jew: Building Wheelchairs For Poor Children How is disgraced former SF Supe "Tapioca" Ed Jew's fight to avoid his jail term for lying and saying he lived in SF coming along? Not so well, if San Francisco's District Attorney
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew: Back From Jail, But For How Long? Though disgraced former San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew is home from federal prison (where he reportedly taught yoga; the fun with this guy never ends), he's supposed to head back to county jail.
SF News MC Hammer Pays A Visit To San Quentin MC Hammer paid a visit at San Quentin recently to talk to a group called The Last Mile, a group of five prisoners, led by two (free) venture capitalists who teach the men
SF News Listen To Former Prisoners' Stories At San Quentin Rally Noted journalist Justin Beck is live at San Quentin today capturing stories of prisoners at the National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners. Today's goals? Drawing attention to ending mass incarceration; abolishing inhumane
SF News Woman Charged With Faking Rape For Better Zip Code In a storyline ripped from a rejected Desperate Housewives spec, Laurie Ann Martinez, a psychologist at Folsom Prison, was charged with faking her own rape in order to get her stubborn husband to
SF News Facebook to Censor Inmates' Pages In an effort to become the most boring place on the world wide web -- or maybe it's just us? Since our friends post the most meh stuff now, we've resorted to following
SF News San Quentin Inmate Crushed in Warehouse Accident KTVU reported on this evening's broadcast (but not online) about a pretty sad accident that occurred this morning in the warehouse of San Quentin State prison. An inmate, who arrived at the prison
SF News Philip Garrido and Charles Manson: Prison Buds The man convicted of kidnapping, raping, and holding Jacyee Dugard in captivity for 18 years will be sent to the same prison as noted Manson Family founder Charles Manson at Corcoran State Prison.
SF News San Quentin Riot Injures 4 After a dining hall riot broke out at San Quentin on Sunday, four prisoners were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The minor melee involved at least 200 convicts. No idea what, exactly, prompted the
SF News Solano County Escapee Nabbed Remember Nathan Simpson? The convict who escaped from a detention facility in Solano County on Sunday night? Well, he was caught. According to CBS 5, Simpson "was captured by special agents from the
